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S/D-85: Tasty clippings from Corey's Box

I guess I never put much thought into the genre classifications of this corner of music.... I get bored by alot of doom, definitely swing more towards stoner rock verging on 70's-style psychedelic. Kadavar is one band I was happy to discover that cops the 70's thing perfect.

Otherwise I listen to alot of Sleep, Acid King, Kyuss/Queens, etc. I hate telling people I listen to/play "stoner rock" as it carries an obvious connotation thats not work appropriate, so in public me and my guitarist have called it "groove rock."

I like the full gamut of these genres, excluding drone. I like stoner rock, sludge, heavy southern rock, throwback 70's and psychedelic rock sounding stuff, stoner metal, most of the doom metal subgenres. I started liking stoner rock and doom metal separately in the late 90's and then the online communities just kind of merged together (they used to be insanely segregated and aggressive towards each other in places), which was convenient for me. I like variety in general though, especially in music. I still listen to pop punk, indie rock, grindcore, powerviolence, crust/d-beat, punk, fast hardcore, funk, classic heavy metal, a tiny bit of hip hop (not much), old country, classic rock, blues, even some jazz. I used to be crazy into jazz when I was younger, but now I can almost never listen to it. I burned myself out listening to and playing jazz (trumpet) between 11-18. There was a weird period in my early teens when all I listened to were jazz and thrash metal.

Most of my regular listening is focused around these genres, poppy melodic rock/pop punk stuff and the more extreme punk/metal offshoots, but every once in a while I need tangents to cleanse the palate.

I'm also not a fan of the term "stoner" in music genres, since I don't smoke pot. Even when I used to I didn't like it, as I never did while playing music and was never a goofy "hell yeah, 420!" type guy, it was never important to my identity. At this point I just don't care, if that's what genre name people use that's what they use.
 
im listening to Saosin right now, and was listening to hoobastank a minutes ago so not ALL music needs to scare me hahaha.

i have many guilty pleasures, so SCREW YOU GUYS!

Sh1t... are we going to go into "guilty pleasure" music? Laz knows I listen to some doozies.

I actually get really bored of ANY genre after alittle bit... always wish I could find my niche and invest 100% into it, but after a few weeks of listening to stoner rock, I'll get in a heavy Led Zeppelin phase, then revert back to Primus, then spin my reggae roots mix cd's, then it gets into deep "guilty pleasure" mode with Rihanna and EDM/dubstep.

I know I just lost all respect from this thread with those last 2... but Rihanna's voice just gives me a massive boner, and you can't hate on dubstep until you've ate a random bag of white powder at a festival and danced your face off. Then it makes sense.
 
In my head I'm thinking volume, pickup switch, ric cap switch maybe a couple cap options and the series switch can be added if I drop the jack on the control plate and use the ric jack. Chrome covers too as I dig them and they don't inhibit my playing style.

It's the maple neck with white binding and pearl blocks so I'm thinking another white body or natural but maybe sunburst.

I recommend having a volume control for each pickup. One of the things I like about my Rickenbacker is that I have both volume controls and a pickup switch, so I can keep them at different volumes.
 
just funny how were all different. kadavar playing for 2 minutes is more boring to me than listening to Evoken play one chord for 12 minutes lol.

bands like evoken just create a really cool atmosphere thats more interesting to me than "a cool riff". thats why portal is so cool, its gross and not played too precisely, but when i listen to vexovoid its like theyre creating one giant ugly atmosphere for 35 minutes. its like pressing play on some weird horror movie in the dark.

i want music to scare me lol.

Yeah... agreed on Kadavar. I just can't get into the 70s throwback stuff if it's not Sleep or Electric Wizard doing it. Even though there are more riffs and stuff, it's boring to me.

Yet I could listen to "The Hiss Before the Blast" or "Wooden Horse" by Laudanum all damn day, and there are only two riffs in each of those songs. But it's so heavy and amazing, and ominous, in the case of the first one. I'm also a fan of atmosphere, which is I guess why doom metal and black metal are two of my favorite kinds of heavy music.
 
Yeah... agreed on Kadavar. I just can't get into the 70s throwback stuff if it's not Sleep or Electric Wizard doing it. Even though there are more riffs and stuff, it's boring to me.

Yet I could listen to "The Hiss Before the Blast" or "Wooden Horse" by Laudanum all damn day, and there are only two riffs in each of those songs. But it's so heavy and amazing, and ominous, in the case of the first one. I'm also a fan of atmosphere, which is I guess why doom metal and black metal are two of my favorite kinds of heavy music.

I always felt Sleep and Electric Wizard were in a space of their own, I dont personally hear the 70s influence in them unless you call anything "heavy" Sabbath influenced. I call them "stoner doom from the 90s"... no idea if thats accurate or not. Sort of like what you get if you mix 90s grundge and deathmetal.
 
Not really into dubstep. Live djs... maybe. More of a dnb guy myself. I was big into trance and stuff in the late 90s early 00s. Thats when we took pills damn it. Triple stacks with tons of speed with my x please. nom nom nom
Glad I'm done with that chapter of my life. haha
 
Because max asked to see my dano pedals, here's they is with my apartment amp and bronco.
 

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I always felt Sleep and Electric Wizard were in a space of their own, I dont personally hear the 70s influence in them unless you call anything "heavy" Sabbath influenced. I call them "stoner doom from the 90s"... no idea if thats accurate or not. Sort of like what you get if you mix 90s grundge and deathmetal.

Sleep to me is pretty blatant Sabbath worship, at least on Vol. 2 and Holy Mountain. Basically seems like they went "this Sabbath stuff is awesome, but let's make it slower, and add more weed."

Electric Wizard I hear a tone of Sabbath influence in, but also in lyrical content they seem to be very much about 70s B horror movies.
 
Corey name some good old country.

Toast, I'm good on eating bags of powder, but sounds like it was fun.

Well, "old" is subjective I guess. If not old, at least of that older sound, but for me...

Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings. I also like Junior Brown. I'm not an aficionado or anything, just a small corner of my listening.
 
Well, "old" is subjective I guess. If not old, at least of that older sound, but for me...

Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings. I also like Junior Brown. I'm not an aficionado or anything, just a small corner of my listening.

I'll add Townes Van Zandt, Tom T Hall, Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, Graham Parsons, Emmylou Harris, David Allan Coe, George Jones...
 
That belongs in the mini rigs of doom.

Amp was free and rat fur with heavy cat damage so I stripped it best I could and sanded then house paint, the rough glue and particle board surface look like old tolex kinda. Then krylon ivory for the grill and face.
I have bar stool it sits on too. And for pure laziness I got a 1lb suitcase dolly and can strap the stool and amp to it, bass on my back and over to friends houses. Oh and it's a practice amp so I plug my iPod into it as a stereo and I got a vocal processor so it can be a PA for ***** and giggles levels.

My pedals demand high volumes so I've never recorded clips as I've nothing to do them justice. The overdrive is versatile, the red pedals as I've mentioned are evil, I'm considering having both on tap on the board for two different flavors, which is kinda funny as keeping it at 1/4 volume 100% bass 0% treble and no gain is already my "extreme", you'd get the nastiest feedbackingest idk if I stack both and the overdrive (which is set 50% volume, 100% bass and mids no treble and all gain last I used it at High volumes, I then stacked it with the basically off fab for over the top.
 
I posted a couple of the requested extras for the Dunwich tourbox demos. Low gain clips for the ODB and Volt Thrower and ampegfuzz's request for an active jazz with a particular setting.

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I really liked both the low gain clips. Interesting how much brighter the VT gets, still sounds good though.

How do you get that aggressive attack with your fingers?
 
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I really liked both the low gain clips. Interesting how much brighter the VT gets, still sounds good though.

How do you get that aggressive attack with your fingers?

Yeah, the Volt Thrower gets brighter and thinner sounding at very low gain settings. Maybe more accurately, the tone gets thicker and darker as you dial up the gain. You can boost the treble a lot though, so it's not an issue at all. I cut the treble control all the way down in that clip.

How do I get that attack with my fingers? I dunno, it's definitely not talent or skill. Probably by accident lol.

I mean...it's a secret! I can teach you for money.
 

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